TYLER B. AKA T-BOUCH AKA BOUCH AKA TY AKA TYTYRach F.ClaffGing aka BryanSam QuachyProgressivism Review



Origins of Progressivism
- How was Populism a forerunner to Progressivism?

Directions: For all of the following people, laws, etc. – provide a 1-2 sentence description/explanation that identifies the importance of the term.

Muckrakers
- Upton Sinclair - the authour of the book the jungle. Exposed conditions of the meat packing industry. Led to the creation of the FDA
- Jacob Riis - Immigrant,
- Lincoln Steffens - Specialized in investigation of govt and political corruption
- Ida Tarbell - Wrote many notable magazines and biographies, first person to take on standard oil.
- Henry Demarest Lloyd - Polictical activist, first prominent muckraker, where he wrote for atlantic monthly where he wrote an article exposing railroads in Standard oil and how they were monopolies
- Theodore Dreiser - Authour his greates book and american tragedy

Political Reforms
- Australian Secret Ballot - Voting method which the voting choices in an election are confidential
- Direct Primary - An election in which party members select candidates for a subsequent election, so the votes would not split between a party
- Initiative - introductory act or step
- Referendum - the principle or practice of referring measures proposed or passed by a legislative body to the vote of the electorate for approval or rejection
- Recall - to bring back from memory
- 17th Amendment - Establisted direct election of the US senators

Prohibition/Temperance
- 18th Amendment- Baned the sale of alchol except those used for religious purposes
- Frances Willard - Influence in the passage of the 18 and 19 ammendment, temperence and suffragist reformer

Women’s Suffrage
- Seneca Falls Convention - First womens rights convention
- Susan B. Anthony - American civil rights leader and co founder of womens civil rights movement
- Alice Paul - Led campaign that resulted in the passage of the 19 ammendment
- Carrie Chapman Catt - Campainged for the 19 ammendment
- NAWSA - National American women suffrage association, fought for womens rights
- 19th Amendment - Women right to vote in all elections

African Americans
- Booker T. Washington - American Educator, Authour, Political leader, represented the last generation of black leaders born into slavery,
- W.E.B. DuBois - Head of NAACP editor of their journal the crisis
- NAACP - National association for the advancement of colored people, African american civil rights organization
- Atlanta Exposition - speach given by Booker T. Washington regarding race relations

Progressive Presidents: Teddy Roosevelt
- Square Deal - Cakked for union leaders and coal mine owners to medicate the labor dispute
- Northern Securities Company - Combination of railroads
- Elkins Act - LCC had great authority to stop railroads from granting rebates to favor customer
- Hepburn Act - Commission could fix reasonable rates for railroads
- Pure Food and Drug Act - Forbade manufactur sale and transportaion of mislabeled foods- drugs
- Forest Reserve Act -set 150 million acres of federal land not sold to private interests
- Newlands Reclamation Act - Law providing money for irrigation profects in west

Progressive Presidents: William Howard Taft
- 16th Amendment - Allowed US govt to collect income tax
- Mann-Elkins Act - Gave interstate commerce commishion, gave the power to suspend new railroad rates
- Payne-Aldrich Act - Raised tariffs on most imports

Progressive Presidents: Woodrow Wilson
- Election of 1912 - Wilson won against
- Underwood Tariff - Lowered taxes alot
- Federal Reserve Act - Created a central banking system in the united states
- Clayton Anti-Trust Act - Strenghtened the sherman anti trust act and most importan for organized labor
- Child Labor Act - Prohibited shipment of products by children under 14 years old


Other
- Eugene V. Debs - Founding member of international labor union
- Jane Addams - First american women to win nobel peace prize, helped turn the nation to the concern to mothers during the proggesive era